Curigwen Lewis

{{Short description|Welsh actress (1905–1992)}}

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Curigwen Lewis (1 November 1905 – 17 February 1992) was a Welsh actress of stage and screen.

She was born in Llandrindod Wells as Martha Curigwen Lewis. In 1939 she married actor Andrew Cruickshank,{{cite web|url=http://tredelyn.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/forgotten-radnorian-curigwen-lewis.html|title=A Forgotten Radnorian - Curigwen Lewis|website=Radnorian|date=22 February 2009|accessdate=23 April 2017}} with whom she appeared in two episodes of Dr. Finlay's Casebook. The couple had three children.{{cite web|title=Curigwen Lewis|work=Omnilexica.com|url=http://www.omnilexica.com/?q=curigwen+lewis+(actress) |accessdate=23 April 2017}}

She was a leading lady with the Birmingham Repertory Company and the Old Vic Company.

{{cite web|title=A Forgotten Radnorian-Curigwen Lewis|work=Tredelyn Blogspot|url=https://tredelyn.blogspot.com/2009/02/forgotten-radnorian-curigwen-lewis.html |accessdate=23 April 2017}}

Her television work included Choir Practice (1949) and Pride and Prejudice (1938). In the 1954 film John Wesley, she portrayed Susanna Wesley, the mother of John and Charles Wesley. In 1949, she played the leading role of Bathsheba Everdene in a BBC radio dramatisation of Far From the Madding Crowd.{{cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/59d02a84751c43a588888a38a3796a94|title=Curigwen Lewis in 'FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD'|website=BBC Genome|access-date=23 April 2017}}

She died, aged 86, in Westminster, London.{{cite web|title=Curigwen Lewis|work=The Internet Movie Database |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507066 |accessdate=23 April 2017}}